Precisely. And where's the incentive for people who could build worthwhile
services - the content providers - to invest time, effort, and money in
doing so? With the exception of a few well-publicised deals with large
content providers (the BBC, EMAP, etc.), little has happened here.
At 21:39 26/04/2002 -0700, Donal O'Shea wrote:
>They have done NOTHING to inform people on what GPRS is or what it can
>do. They have provided NO applications or services.
>
>Now the only chance they have is to price it right -- like SMS.
>
>Don't hold you breath! These people are special.
>
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>
>An interesting little factoid from the UK, rather like that low level of
>Foma usage on Foma.
>A fifth of all handsets sold in the UK by the Carphone Warehouse, the
>biggest phone retailer in the country, were GPRS in Q1. That's about
>35,000
>units.
>And how many of those people used GPRS network services?
>200.
>This reminds me of the days when SMS was installed on all phones, but it
>took months and months before it took off and then boom.
>So where's the "Tipping Point"?
>
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